I'd be willing to pay $.01 or 0.2 for an article, but will probably just stop looking at Wired online. Years ago micropayment was touted as a means to support online content, but went by the wayside as ads became more common. I pay $150.00 a month for my internet connection, I block ads for the most part because they are irritating, obtrusive, and they occupy a nontrivial portion of the data transmission. Find a better way to support yourself Wired or risk losing a large portion of your audience.
The expectation people are willing to pay $100/yr each for New York Times, Washington Post, LA Times and several others for 1 or 2 articles/week, then $50/yr for Wired, Forbes and a few other magazine articles approaches absurdity on top of outrageous charges for slow unreliable bandwidth. I would like to be able to get most of my current news and information online, it's just not going to happen if I have to put up with ridiculously absurd advertising.
I missed a chance to have a video cam and voice activated recorder installed when I had total knee replacement this winter. I won't make that mistake again.
The way metal detectors and guards treat my knee you'd think it was a nuclear (not nuculer) device. Sometimes its hell getting old...
What cloud does the other Republican Senator from Alaska reside under? Her father appointed her to fulfill his term when he was elected Gov'ner, but she has done reasonably well for a Republican.
Its not cameras per se, its an Attorney General who is willing to lie to a congressional committee, and openly says that the Constitution is what he says it is. He also feels that habeus corpus is not the right of all citizens, but that the government is only forbidden to take it away, not that it has been granted to the populace.
The current administration has provided us with sufficient evidence that government is not to be trusted with power. Much blood was spilled to keep us from enslavement by government. It appears at this stage to have been wasted.
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I think you have the answer. He probably can't be bought but he can be (and frequently is) mislead. Its one of a large number of issues that the senior senator from Alaska has no clue. A year ago he would not take citizen communications by email. He, or at least his staff, do now. I have never actually gotten a response from the many emails I have sent to him. Could it be that his packets are stuck in a tube somewhere between Alaska and Washington, DC???
What a novel idea, actually might learn something. Although, the whole TSA/Homeland Security system is set up to build empires and only incidentally provide a semblance (not a reality) of safety. Even Represetative Don Young has said that he is disappointed with the TSA and Homeland Security people. Unfortunately, government entities are not big on error checking, or actually attempting to decide what risks actually are present. Kind of reminds us of Microsoft, and has just about as much effect on making things better.
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I'd be willing to pay $.01 or 0.2 for an article, but will probably just stop looking at Wired online. Years ago micropayment was touted as a means to support online content, but went by the wayside as ads became more common. I pay $150.00 a month for my internet connection, I block ads for the most part because they are irritating, obtrusive, and they occupy a nontrivial portion of the data transmission. Find a better way to support yourself Wired or risk losing a large portion of your audience. The expectation people are willing to pay $100/yr each for New York Times, Washington Post, LA Times and several others for 1 or 2 articles/week, then $50/yr for Wired, Forbes and a few other magazine articles approaches absurdity on top of outrageous charges for slow unreliable bandwidth. I would like to be able to get most of my current news and information online, it's just not going to happen if I have to put up with ridiculously absurd advertising.
I think ATMOS was revealed to be a Sontaran plot to turn earth into a cloning center. No wonder it will never become popular.
The power of government may be the only porn we need to worry about. at least we can filter out .gov
I missed a chance to have a video cam and voice activated recorder installed when I had total knee replacement this winter. I won't make that mistake again. The way metal detectors and guards treat my knee you'd think it was a nuclear (not nuculer) device. Sometimes its hell getting old...
What cloud does the other Republican Senator from Alaska reside under? Her father appointed her to fulfill his term when he was elected Gov'ner, but she has done reasonably well for a Republican.
Its not cameras per se, its an Attorney General who is willing to lie to a congressional committee, and openly says that the Constitution is what he says it is. He also feels that habeus corpus is not the right of all citizens, but that the government is only forbidden to take it away, not that it has been granted to the populace. The current administration has provided us with sufficient evidence that government is not to be trusted with power. Much blood was spilled to keep us from enslavement by government. It appears at this stage to have been wasted. j
Who is Marshall, and how did he get a law named after himself?
I think you have the answer. He probably can't be bought but he can be (and frequently is) mislead. Its one of a large number of issues that the senior senator from Alaska has no clue. A year ago he would not take citizen communications by email. He, or at least his staff, do now. I have never actually gotten a response from the many emails I have sent to him. Could it be that his packets are stuck in a tube somewhere between Alaska and Washington, DC???
What a novel idea, actually might learn something. Although, the whole TSA/Homeland Security system is set up to build empires and only incidentally provide a semblance (not a reality) of safety. Even Represetative Don Young has said that he is disappointed with the TSA and Homeland Security people. Unfortunately, government entities are not big on error checking, or actually attempting to decide what risks actually are present. Kind of reminds us of Microsoft, and has just about as much effect on making things better.